In 1989,
I was in the company of my ancestors, perambulating and searching for the perfect
panacea to the mysteries of this world. As we undulated, passed the ancestral boundary
that separated the wonderful people of Enugu State and Anambra State, a thunder
bellowed from the heavens and we heard a voice that echoed ‘The humanity must help
herself,’ I paused and looked into the eyes of the gray headed fellow
that was in our company and he yelled uncontrollably ‘The Oke Mmanwu Ndi Igbo
has come to help humanity!’ and I laughed and
spoke in a foreign tongue, ‘In’shallah,’ with my eyes spinning
round, like Okekparikpari, the great deity of my community.
After the
Oke Mmanwu Ndi Igbo was dropped from the space, he grew up somewhere in Anambra
State where the gods chose for him. The Njikoka of Njikoka was enrolled in Ozalla
Primary School Ifitedunu, Anambra State (1993 - 1999), by his caretakers. He
attended Saint Charles Special Science School Onitsha from 1999 - 2005, where
he was tutored by the best teachers (according to him). He later gained
admission into University of Nigeria, Nsukka in 2006, where he became a
desperado, in search of more knowledge that would help him to solve some problems
of humanity, but his life turned stranded like ‘Onyeka Nwelue’s Nollywood Stranded’
in the University. When he found his virgin ass in one of the most ‘Akpo’ faculty in the University, his life became an episode, in
fact, confuse ga duma. C.L.U.E. XXX RDH, began
asking too many questions about life, his future and destiny, of a truth, ‘THE
GRAY MESSAGE’ could not explain these things to his satisfaction, as he
transmuted as a FE, without the LLOW.
In 2009 -
2010, the revolutionary spirit came fully open him like a baptism of fire in
the shrine and hunted him, and at that point, he had no option than to
surrender like Ebola, when it visited 9ja. After that encounter, his
directionless life bought a bearing from the University market, Nsukka, and he
started giving the idea of migrating from Computer Science to International
Relations and Diplomacy a second thought. He played the school politics anyway,
when he was still in a bizarre state of mind, way back in University of
Nigeria, Nsukka.
Oke
Mmanwu Ndi Igbo graduated in 2010 and went to serve his ‘Papa land’ in Lagos (2011 – 2012).
During this period, his debut book was published by Sir Victor Uwaifo's
museum I'm Benin City, and presented at Bogobiri, Ikoyi, Lagos.
In 2012 -
2014, he was involved in the Community Development Work, ICT Practices, Writing
(Writing of the 1,000 paged Nigerian Centenary Compendium: The Metamorphoses of
Nigeria 1914 - 2014), Journalism and Activism.
Presently,
he is doing his Masters in Regional Development and International Studies in
East Africa (Nairobi) and he is an intern in Pakistan High Commission, Abuja,
Nigeria.
Oke
Mmanwu Ndi Igbo is a Secular Humanist and he does not pray or disturb any god
for anything. He is a GULDER and CIGARETTE brethren.
Mind
you, JUDAS PRIEST got
some Money now, after he finished selling his novel MALCOLM in Nigeria, not in
Nairobi.
Happy
Birthday Oke Mmanwu Ndi Igbo,
(C.L.U.E. XXX RDH).
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